Robert C. Byrd: “I commend you, Mr. Chairman, for the steps you've taken to impose accountability on the Defense Department and to…”

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.